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Artificial intelligence will have major impact next three decades, says Microsoft President
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) Microsoft is working in El Paso to educate students and businesses about computer science. Microsoft's President compares artificial intelligence to the impact the combustion engine had years ago. "Over the next three decades artificial intelligence will probably have a bigger impact on our lives than any other single technology," said Brad Smith the President of Microsoft. Microsoft is helping companies in both Juarez and El Paso grow and learn about technology to be competitive in a global market. Microsoft says the younger generation needs to be taught about artificial intelligence and the older generation must adapt.
Computers Gone Wild--6 Movies to Help You Ponder Our Quantum Future
How do you explain quantum computing? Think of that vintage telephone at the General Store on Petticoat Junction. Put it next to your iPhone. Every day, it seems like there is news of yet another breakthrough in computing. Technology experts debate exactly when we will all have quantum computers instead of Echo Dots, but the day is coming.
My Dead Best Friend Is Now a Chatbot
Last year Eugenia Kuyda lost her friend Roman in an accident. But she was determined not to lose his memory. She gathered all the texts Roman sent over his short life and made a chatbot – a program that responds automatically to text messages. Now whenever she is missing Roman, Eugenia sends the chatbot a message and Roman's words respond. And subscribe to Bloomberg Politics for the latest political news: http://www.youtube.com/BloombergPolit... Bloomberg is the First Word in business news, delivering breaking news & analysis, up-to-the-minute market data, features, profiles and more: http://www.bloomberg.com
r/MachineLearning - [D] RL Line Follower
I'm trying to train a line follower agent using Deep RL. In the simplest case, the environments look like in the attached figure. More complicated environments can be generated by varying the line thickness along the path, allowing the line to have tangency points with itself, or having other lines intersecting/touching the line of interest. The agent starts at one end and the goal is to reach the other end while staying as centered as possible and following the topologically correct path (e.g. in case of overlaps, it shouldn't take the "wrong path"). The terminal state does not have to be signaled by the agent.When the agent is located in the middle of an intersection, the correct path to take cannot be determined unless a history of previous positions is stored (either by concatenating the latest n observations, or by using a recurrent layer such as an LSTM in the Q network/Policy network), thus effectively handling the environment as a POMDP.
How and Where to Start with Python in Data Science? - Analytics Jobs
Python is the most popular and widely used language in Data Science, Machine Learning and Deep Learning. Most of the companies with the likes of YouTube, Google, Netflix etc are using Python to gear up there offerings to their customers. In this article, we will help you with how to start with Python in data science? So far, in this series of data science tutorial, we have covered the following topics: 1. What is data science and why do we need this now?
Machine Learning Powered Automation: The Future Of Animation
Walt Disney is synonymous with mainstreaming of animation. He was a visionary beyond his time. His creativity and imagination turned simple 2-D characters based on a mouse and a duck into a multi-billion dollar business conglomerate. However, back then animation used to be an extremely labour intensive exercise and animators/cartoonists had to frame by frame draw the entire film. That is how things used to be until the arrival of the year 1972 when two researchers from the University of Utah, Ed Catmull and Fred Parke created a computer animated short video of Catmull's left hand.
Visual 1st brings AI, AR, computational photography and more to light in 14 days!
Visual 1st, the executive conference focused on promoting innovation and partnerships in the photo and video ecosystem, will bring AI, AR, computational photography, and the future of digital cameras to the center stage, Oct. 3-4, at the Golden Gate Club, San Francisco, Calif. AI is already everywhere in imaging, from recognition to enhancement to auto-editing – and of course, there's much more to come. In parallel, AR solutions are proliferating at a rapid pace, serving use cases ranging from having lots of fun to being highly productive. As these two technologies evolve in mutually reinforcing ways, we, as an industry, must take the imaging solutions they enable to the next level of value and profitability, while also keeping things safe, secure and private for our customers – but how? Alexander Schiffhauer recently left his role as Technical Advisor to Google's CEO Sundar Pichai to take product management responsibility for the company's computational photography teams. Under his leadership, these teams have pioneered innovation on Pixel Camera, leveraging AI and computer vision techniques to create photos unimaginable only a few years ago.